Ancient DNA confirms single origin of Malagasy primates
...ar, which is the world's fourth largest island and east of Africa. Evolutionary analysis of the DNA obtained from the extinct giants reveals that they, like the living lemurs, are descended from a single primate ancestor that colonized Madagascar more than 60 million years ago, Yoder said. The biologists ...US/African project deciphers deadly parasite genome
...n microbiologist Robert Koch, who had been sent to east Africa to study the disease, was the first to desc...lication of bioinformatics through the Biosciences east and central Africa (BecA) initiative, which is part of the New Partnership for Africa's Development ...Genetic link confirmed between Polynesians and indigenous Taiwanese
...tions in their mtDNA that do not occur in mainland east Asian populations. Furthermore, they showed that there are enough different mtDNA mutations between the mainland Chinese population and the aboriginal Taiwanese to support archeological findings suggesting a long period of habitation. These results i...North Atlantic right whales headed toward extinction
...da to Canada. "There is really no place along the east coast of the United States free of humans, and shipping creates a lot of opportunities for whales to get hit," said Clark. "Swimming between ships and lobster pot lines, whales are constantly facing the gauntlets of traffic and snares. It's hard for ...Scientists discover global pattern of big fish diversity in open oceans
...redators. Scientists say these hotspots - off the east coasts of the US, Australia, and Sri Lanka; south ...e last remaining bits, say the authors. Today the east coast of the U.S., just south of Cape Hatteras and along the east coast of Florida, harbor some of t...Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures
...lar Current, a powerful force flowing from west to east moving 145 million cubic meters of water per second, more than the combined flow of all world rivers. Piecing together the history of marine evolution Because they now understand the physical churn that goes on in the Southern Ocean, biologis...Coyotes in the suburbs, bears in the backyard
...latively undisturbed mountain about 200 kilometers east of Montral. The researchers found higher genetic diversity in the unfragmented habitat of Mont-Mgantic, suggesting that urbanization has indeed taken a toll on the genetic structure of the red-backed salamander. Nol will discuss their findings at P...Locusts' built-in 'surface analysis' ability directs them to fly overland
...rthern tip of the gulf did some of them turn again east in the direction of Aqaba and other areas of Jordan, as well as straight north over southern Israel. This observation led to examination by scientists of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology and the In...Ships bring alien jellyfish invaders to our shores
...yfish in Japan, California, western Europe and the east and west Australian coastlines. Introduced species are believed to cost the United States $122 billion per year. About 3,000 species of marine organisms are believed to travel the world in ships' ballast water each day. Ships take in water for stabil...Research suggests fitness of Florida panthers improved by limited breeding with Texas animals
... offspring have been moving successfully south and east into new sections of the Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve, he said. Pimm, whose research group works in the Everglades each year, said some scientists have erroneously tended to "look at a map and say, 'because this species...Controlling the spread of invasive plants: a national effort one-day symposium, Aug. 30
...Chesapeake Bay watershed and to at least 33 states east of the Mississippi since it was first detected on the Potomac River in 1942. The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization, chartered by the U.S. Congress, with a multidisciplinary membership of more than 158,000 chemists and chemical e...... Europe or the Middle East and spread more readily east and west due to human migrations, as opposed to south to Africa because of geographic barriers. Or, they could have arisen in Africa, and increased in frequency once early humans migrated out of Africa." While the roles of Microcephalin and ASPM in r...$16 million grant advances nanomedicine at Washington University
...onstructed biotechnology laboratory complex on the east edge of the School of Medicine campus. Developed by CORTEX, the Center of Research, Technology & Entrepreneurial Exchange, the building is scheduled for completion in January 2006. The other six CCNEs are at the University of North Carolina; the Univ...A new angle on flowers: Fish are players in pollination
...ay Preserve, a 9,600-acre biological field station east of Gainesville. There, a crew of faculty members, postdoctoral associates and graduate students spent weeks observing the creatures at eight ponds, four with fish and four without. The researchers counted and compared both the dragonfly larvae in the...Charting the path of the deadly Ebola virus in central Africa
... its current course, ZEBOV may hit populated areas east of Odzala National Park within 12 years and reach most parks containing large populations of western gorillas in 36 years. Two Ebola outbreaks have already hit human populations west of Odzala, and over the past two years, the largest gorilla and chi...Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds
...nding from British Columbia to Baja California and east into Texas, Florida and New York. Fewer than 300 are alive today, the majority recently bred and hatched in zoos as part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service California Condor Recovery Program--a federally supported effort is to establish self-sust...'Fish with chips' reporting from ocean top highlights at Census of Marine Life mid-point
...four regions where high diversity persists off the east coasts of the US, Australia, and SriLanka; south of Hawaii; and in the South-EasternPacific. Discoveries and highlights, 2005: Synthesis North Pacific Pilot Inventory: To test thefeasibility of the global Census, a team of CoMLexperts in the ...A year on from the Asian tsunami, satellites are aiding regional rebuilding
...ea of Sumatra. Meanwhile the town of Sigli in the east of Sumatra's Aceh province, home to 13 965 people, was two-thirds destroyed in the tsunami. Today more than 180 new homes are under construction (out of a planned 536), along with a new school and a repaired road. More than 40 small and motorised fis...Manomet report studies impact of massive turnover of timberland in New England's Northern Forest
... their land. As the largest continuous forest area east of the Mississippi, the Northern Forest is important to the economic, social and environmental welfare of bordering communities in the Northeast. Located only a day's drive to a quarter of the U.S. population, the area has been a prime recreation de......mmercially exploited fish commonly found along the east coast of North America, the researchers conducted harvesting experiments under a variety of regimens. They reared the fish for five generations, selecting out the largest individuals from each generation. They then evaluated multiple traits, such as...